Genetic Modification: Bad For The World

When it comes to the topic of genetic modification there is a debate whether or not

With new technology it allows us to further research to attempt to benefit humanity and the environment people live in. As well as the genetic engineering playing a positive role in helping with “agriculture, aquaculture, bioremediation, and environmental management, both in developed and developing countries. However, deliberate or inadvertent releases of genetically engineered organisms into the environment could have negative ecological impacts under some circumstances”(Coker 24). With the engineering of plants and medicines, there seems to be no harm done if something were to go wrong and hurt the plant or the medicine just doesn’t turn out right. There comes a point when scientists cross a line and that is when they start to create designer babies. With designer babies, it gives the mother and the father the ability to change and enhance the outcome of their child. The parents are given the opportunity to improve the way their child's “eyesight could be greatly improved, perhaps even allowing [them] to see wavelengths of light that are currently ‘invisible’ to us” (Coker 26). Having a child with not only enhanced eyesight, but with them having your choice of hair color, the eye color you have chosen, or allowing them to have enhanced strength people are interrupting the natural way a child is supposed to be created. A child who has been genetically engineered to have enhanced strength is a child how going to ruin the way sports are played fairly. A child who has been born naturally and has had nothing altered about him will be no match against a genetically engineered one. Some people would take into consideration that the religious church would believe that genetically engineering anything is not moral. Inside “the moral evaluation of germ line cell therapy is different. Whatever genetic modifications are effected on the germ cells of a person will be transmitted to any potential

I believe Genetically Modified Organisms are bad because, there is evidence that shows how violent Genetically Modified Organisms can be and how the effects on your body can be negative. There is evidence to prove that Genetically Modified Organisms are violent on women who are pregnant and the unborn fetus, studies show that “pesticides associated with Genetically Modified foods, are engineered to tolerate herbicides such as glyphosate and glufosinate or insecticides such as the bacterial toxin bacillus thuringiensis, Blood of thirty pregnant women and thirty-nine nonpregnant women were studied, Serum glyphosate and glufosinate were detected in nonpregnant women and not detected in pregnant women, toxin was detected in pregnant women, their

While the two stand on opposite sides of the fence, it can be agreed upon by both authors that genetic modification could change the world with it’s ability to eliminate disease. “New human genetic technologies have real potential to help prevent or cure many terrible diseases” (Hayes, 500) states Hayes, as he supports genetic modification through this service. Green, the advocate for the process, is quick to provide examples of how the practice could improve the lives of future children. “If we understood the genetic causes of obesity, for example, we can intervene by means of embryo selection to produce a child with reduced likelihood of getting fat” (Green, 496).

In discussions of Genetic Modification, one controversial issue has been can it improve human life span. On the one hand, parents argue the safety and results of genetic modification. On the other hand, scientists argue it can improve future technology. Others even maintain the idea this is another step to high-end technology. My own view is genetic modification has many unknown results.

Day by day year by year we are constantly increasing our advancements in the scientific field. One area of these advancements that are becoming more and more of a talking point is the genetic modification of human beings. This means in some ways modifying and changing our genetics to fit our desires. Think of it as buying a car and changing or getting new parts. Like adding a turbo or removing a fault that prevents the car from operating at full potential. As with many things this type of activity done to humans will draw a ton of different opinions and moral questions. The big question is what the future of genetic modification is and how can it help and or harm us?

When it comes to the topic of genetic modification, most of us will readily agree that genetic modification should be allowed. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of how genetic modification can be dangerous. Whereas some are convinced that people should be able to modify their genes, others maintain that modifying genes can cause too many risks and dangers for humanity. Genetic modification should not be allowed because it is unacceptable to change the natural course of human life.

On the other hand, the other form of genetic engineering, gene enhancement is the idea of improving average typical genes to be above average. Therapeutic treatment is acceptable, if parents can prevent their child from having a serious or fatal disease, they should be able to pay for genetic treatment if they can afford to do so. However, I completely disagree with the process of genetic enhancement; a parent should not be able to alter their child’s genes from typical or average to above average. If humans even consider gene enhancement for their children, they should revise what is morally and ethically right and wrong. The thought of parents one day being able to enhance or perfect the genes of their expected child is by all means wrong. Children should not be born into a world where their ultimate choices have been made by their parents before the moment of their birth. Children’s genes should be left untouched unless there is something terribly wrong, such as a sickness or disease.

To be able to fix problems such as freeing them from a birth defect that impairs them. One of the things that it can do is that it can “allow scientists to make precise changes to DNA, and has the potential to transform the treatment of genetic disorders by correcting faulty genes” (Sample, 1). Genetic modification can provide people the chance to stop a defect that was passed down for generations like CRISPR. For example, if there is a defect that was passed down from generations before and the baby will have Autism, scientist can change the baby’s genomes to stop the defect and create better traits that replace the

The access of genetic modification technologies may fall into the wrong hands or be used for the wrong purposes.

Genetic Engineering refers to technologies that allow changing or manipulating of genes. Genetic engineering is a big evolution for humanity; many scientists around the world have studied it for century. In the future everyone may be able to choose their children’s eyes color, hair, height, IQ, sports ability and artistic gifts and also may look prettier and healthier thanks to the technology. According to Gregory Stock’s article “Choosing our genes”, the technologies that give people control over their genetic destiny will be developed whether they are banned or not. In my opinion, genetic engineering is both helpful and hurtful for

By definition, genetic modification is the direct manipulation of an organism's genome through the use of biotechnology. This definition becomes skewed within the eyes of popular culture; genetic modification can be used to "manipulate" an organism's DNA, for they fear that this life is now the result of artificial selection, rather than natural selection. To biologists and analytical geneticists though, genetic engineering grants the opportunity to change the way the future generations will think, just by cutting, editing, and adding traits which change the genetic codes of a living cell. However, this does not necessarily mean the loss of humane ethics.

People nowadays think that Genetically Modified Organisms are bad for us. GMO foods are organisms that have had new genes added to them from different organisms. People are not very educated about Genetically Modified Organisms that is why they think they are bad for us, how do we educate people about Genetically Modified Organisms, how Genetically Modified Organisms not harmful to us.

Although many oppose the genetic modification of crops, genetic modification also poses an opportunity to lower the price of crops and increase production, which could help solve world hunger. While it may seem like negative effects would be outweighed by the possibility of solving world hunger, an important issue, the conceivably detrimental effects on the health of the environment and the human race would outweigh the humanitarian goal of stopping world hunger. Genetic modification of crops is not the only possible solution to world hunger. There are other solutions that would not negatively harm the environment. The effects of genetic modification, good or bad, would affect everyone as this process is already wide spread. Although everyone has different opinions about the genetic modification of crops, it really comes down to whether solving world hunger is worth hurting the earth.

As the human population is growing at an exponential rate, the food supply will soon become scarce. A great majority of developing countries are already facing the hunger crisis. It is estimated that roughly half of the world’s population, especially in these nations, the people are suffering from the scarce food supply and inadequate nutrients. Although this is true, increasing agricultural practices are part of the solution, but it is merely possible for the mass production of foods with essential nutrients to support this rapid population growth. Hence, the only solution at hand is secreted within the science of genetic modification of plants and animals. There have been numerous amounts